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Northwestern's first football game is more than two weeks away, but fans are already speculating on possible bowl destinations, including the Outback Bowl, the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Each bowl comes with a hefty payout, which is shared by the schools in the Big Ten. The schools share in it — not the players. Though if the players are successful enough to make it to the Peach Bowl, they probably get all the chicken sandwiches they can eat. At least before the game. A decision last week by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken could change that. Wilken ruled that the NCAA, which makes billions of dollars off the...

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Northwestern's first football game is more than two weeks away, but fans are already speculating on possible bowl destinations, including the Outback Bowl, the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
Each bowl comes...

Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega is suing the Santa Monica video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. for depicting him and using his name without his permission in one of the fastest-selling video games.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles...

Twitter's Dick Costolo is gutting the company's top ranks as he seeks to build an executive dream team.
The microblogging service Tuesday appointed a new chief financial officer, former Goldman Sachs banker Anthony Noto, who took the company public in...

Actress Lindsay Lohan is suing the makers of the popular "Grand Theft Auto V" video game, saying it used her likeness without permission, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.Lohan accused New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software Inc...

OAKLAND, Calif. — As a much-anticipated federal court trial began Monday, the walls that for decades have separated college athletes from the riches of a multibillion-dollar sports enterprise began to show some cracks.
The occasion was the opening of...

The NCAA announced Monday it has reached a $20 million settlement with former Division I college football and basketball players over the use of their likeness in video games produced by EA Sports.
The money will be paid to plaintiffs led by former...

They’re highly vetted early startups looking to disrupt everything from e-commerce to Big Data to telephone service to test prep. Their first assignment as incoming class members at Techstars Chicago:
Sell some popcorn.
About 40 leaders from 10...

Books become TV series. Amusement park rides become movies. Pop songs become Broadway musicals. But how do you adapt a city into a video game? How do you digitize the essence of a major American metropolis within the framework of a playable experience?...

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Electronic Arts Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Co. wanted to use the names and likenesses of college athletes in video games, according to an NCAA document unsealed in federal court Wednesday.
The report was among hundreds of pages of documents that...

Orland Square Mall, Chicagoland’s leading fashion destination, announced today that it will host the 2013 Simon GamePlay™ tour on Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the upper level near Carson’s, connecting fans of all ages to the hottest video games...

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Over Nine Days, 50 Companies and Individuals Gather in the Fringe’s New Jefferson Park Location to Offer More Than 200 Performances, August 29 – September 8
CHICAGO – The Chicago Fringe Festival is proud to announce its line up for the 2013 Festival....

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Open year round for indoor fun such as bowling, skating, mini golf and laser tag, there's also an outback section with kart racing, bumper boats,...

Ed Boon was pulling punches.
I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game...

BURBANK, Calif. — It was when he cast Bowser, the fire-breathing turtle from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. games, that Rich Moore first grasped the magnitude of the job he was undertaking.“That was the huge one,” he said at Walt Disney Studios' Burbank...

Amy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley. "I was sitting there listening to 6-year-olds talk about IPOs and whose house was bigger and how much a wedding dress...

Laura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was...

Three-quarters of Americans believe video games that involve physical activity can be part of a fitness regime, according to a recent study by the UnitedHealth Group, a health insurance company in Minnetonka, Minn.The same study also found that some 60...

As a simple linear equation, Kerrie Holley's past wouldn't add up to his present.
Holley was born on the South Side into "the stereotypical life of a black youth — never met my father, grew up poor in a neighborhood with gangs, never lived with my...